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data/data/4/14.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         {
+            "day":"14",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"43 BC",
+            "text":"Battle of Forum Gallorum: Mark Antony, besieging Julius Caesar's assassin Decimus Junius Brutus in Mutina, defeats the forces of the consul Pansa, who is killed."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"14",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"193",
+            "text":"Lucius Septimus Severus crowned Emperor of Rome"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"14",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"754",
+            "text":"Pact of Quierzy: between Pope Stephen II, [III] & Pippin the Korte"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"14",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"966",
+            "text":"Christianisation of Poland"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"14",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"972",
+            "text":"Notger becomes bishop of Liege"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"14",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"979",
+            "text":"Challenge to throne of King Aethelred II of England"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"14",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1028",
+            "text":"German emperor Conrad II the Sailor crowns his son Henry III, king"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"14",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1191",
+            "text":"85-year old Giacinto Bobo becomes Pope Coelestinus III"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"14",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1341",
+            "text":"Sack of Saluzzo (Italy) by Italian-Angevine troops under Manfred V of Saluzzo."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"14",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1434",
+            "text":"The foundation stone of Cathedral St. Peter and St. Paul in Nantes, France is laid."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"14",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1471",
+            "text":"Battle of Barnet - King Edward IV vs Earl of Warwick"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"14",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1536",
+            "text":"English King Henry VIII expropriates minor monasteries"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"14",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1544",
+            "text":"Battle at Carignano: French troops under Earl d'Enghien beat Swiss"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"14",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1570",
+            "text":"Polish Calvinists/Lutherians/Hernhutters unify against Jesuits"
+         }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/4/15.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         {
+            "day":"15",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"69",
+            "text":"Battle at Bedriacum, North-Italy"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"15",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1205",
+            "text":"Battle at Adrianople: Bulgaria beats Emp Boudouin of Constantinople"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"15",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1250",
+            "text":"Pope Innoncent III refuses Jews of Cordova Spain to build a synagogue"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"15",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1450",
+            "text":"French defeat English at Battle of Formigny in 100 Years' War"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"15",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1493",
+            "text":"-20/4 Barcelona] Columbus meets with King Ferdinand & Isabella"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"15",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1528",
+            "text":"Pánfilo the Narváez, Spanish conquistador arrives in Florida with 350 men to a hostile reception from native indians"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"15",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1534",
+            "text":"Thomas Cromwell is appointed Chief Secretary to King Henry VIII"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"15",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1581",
+            "text":"Cortes van Thomar accepts Philip II as king of Portugal"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"15",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1594",
+            "text":"Fleming Pieter Stevens appointed royal painter of Rudolf II (Prague)"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"15",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1621",
+            "text":"Hugo the Great arrives in France"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"15",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1632",
+            "text":"Battle of Rain; Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat Count Tilly of the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"15",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1654",
+            "text":"England & Netherlands sign peace treaty"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"15",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1689",
+            "text":"French King Louis XIV declares war on Spain"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"15",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1697",
+            "text":"Charles XII succeeds Charles XI as King of Sweden"
+         }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/4/16.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         {
+            "day":"16",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1178 BC",
+            "text":"A solar eclipse may have marked the return of Odysseus, legendary King of Ithaca, to his kingdom after the Trojan War."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"16",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"73",
+            "text":"Masada, a Jewish fortress, falls to the Romans after several months of siege, ending the Jewish Revolt."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"16",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"556",
+            "text":"Pelagius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"16",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1071",
+            "text":"Bari falls to Robert Guiscard, ending Byzantine rule in Italy."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"16",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1346",
+            "text":"The Serbian Empire is proclaimed in Skopje at an Easter assembly and Stephen Uroš IV Dušan crowned Emperor over much of the Balkans."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"16",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1395",
+            "text":"Azzo X d'Este is defeated at the Battle of Portomaggiore by Venetian-Ferrarese troops."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"16",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1509",
+            "text":"French army under Louis XII enters Alps"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"16",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1521",
+            "text":"Martin Luther arrives at the Diet of Worms assembly"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"16",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1582",
+            "text":"Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma founds the settlement of Salta, Argentina."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"16",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1632",
+            "text":"Albrecht von Wallenstein appointed supreme commander"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"16",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1705",
+            "text":"Queen Anne of England knights Isaac Newton at Trinity College, Cambridge"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"16",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1746",
+            "text":"Battle of Culloden, the last battle on British soil: Royalist troops under the Duke of Cumberland defeat the Jacobite army."
+         }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/4/17.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         {
+            "day":"17",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"858",
+            "text":"Benedict III ends his reign as Catholic Pope"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"17",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1397",
+            "text":"Geoffrey Chaucer tells the Canterbury Tales for the first time at the court of Richard II. Chaucer scholars have also identified this date (in 1387) as when the book's pilgrimage to Canterbury starts."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"17",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1492",
+            "text":"Christopher Columbus signs contract with Spain to find Indies"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"17",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1524",
+            "text":"Giovanni Verrazano, a Florentine navigator, discovers New York Bay"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"17",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1534",
+            "text":"Sir Thomas More confined in London Tower"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"17",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1555",
+            "text":"Siena surrenders for Spanish troops"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"17",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1596",
+            "text":"Archduke Albrecht of Austria occupies Calais"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"17",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1629",
+            "text":"1st commercial fishery established"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"17",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1704",
+            "text":"1st successful US newspaper; published in Boston by John Campbell"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"17",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1711",
+            "text":"Charles VI becomes Holy Roman Emperor after the death of his brother Joseph I"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"17",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1747",
+            "text":"French troops occupy Zeeuws-Flanders, Netherlands"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"17",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1758",
+            "text":"Francis Williams, 1st US black college graduate, publishes poems"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"17",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1793",
+            "text":"Battle of Warsaw"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"17",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1797",
+            "text":"Sir Ralph Abercromby attacks San Juan, Puerto Rico in what would be one of the largest invasions to Spanish territories in America."
+         }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/4/18.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         {
+            "day":"18",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"310",
+            "text":"St Eusebius begins his reign as Catholic Pope"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"18",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"387",
+            "text":"Bishop Ambrosius of Milan baptizes Augustinus"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"18",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1025",
+            "text":"Bolesław Chrobry is crowned in Gniezno, becoming the first King of Poland."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"18",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1506",
+            "text":"The cornerstone of the current St. Peter's Basilica is laid."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"18",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1518",
+            "text":"Bona Sforza is crowned as queen consort of Poland."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"18",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1521",
+            "text":"Diet of Worms: Cardinal Alexander questions Martin Luther"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"18",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1552",
+            "text":"Mauritius of Saksen occupies Linz"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"18",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1663",
+            "text":"Osman declares war on Austria"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"18",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1666",
+            "text":"Peace of Kleef: Netherlands & bishop Von Galen of Munster"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"18",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1676",
+            "text":"Sudbury, Mass attacked by Indians"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"18",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1738",
+            "text":"Real Academia de la Historia (\"Royal Academy of History\") founded in Madrid."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"18",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1775",
+            "text":"Paul Revere & William Dawes ride from Charleston to Lexington warning the \"regulars are coming!\""
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"18",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1783",
+            "text":"Fighting ceases in the American Revolution, eight years to the day since it began."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"18",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1797",
+            "text":"France & Austria signs cease fire"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"18",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1809",
+            "text":"1st run of 2,000 guineas horse race at Newmarket England"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"18",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1834",
+            "text":"Charles Darwin sails to Rio Santa Cruz up Patagonia"
+         }
+      ]
+   }
+]